Poppies and Butterflies

Vincent van Gogh

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Poppies and Butterflies
Vincent van Gogh
Date: 1890; Saint-rémy-de-provence, France *
Style: Post-Impressionism
Genre: landscape
Media: oil, canvas
Dimensions: 25.5 x 34.5 cm
Location: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands


Debra Mancoff, author of Van Gogh's Flowers,[39] described Poppies and Butterflies: "vivid red poppies and the pale yellow butterflies float on the surface of twisting dark stems and nodding buds, all against a yellow-gold background. Although composed of natural motifs, van Gogh's layering of pattern in Butterflies and Poppies suggests a decorative quality like that of a textile or a screen." Mancoff compared this study to the Japanese prints he admired.